154 LITUOST.VD^. 



*1267 b. Automolis chrysopera. (Plate XLVI. fig. 1-3. ) 

 Automolis chrysopera, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 217 (1905). 



g. Head and thorax yellow ; palpi crimson behind ; Irons with 

 two crimson bars: teguhe with two curved crimson lines; patagia 

 and thorax streaked with crimson ; pectus and legs white, fore legs 

 tinged with crimson in front; abdomen crimson, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing dark brown, the veins, (fiscal and 

 submedian folds streaked with crimson with slight yellow streaks 

 on them on medial area; the costal area from beyond middle and 

 the terminal area down to vein 2 bright yellow indented by two 

 brown and crimson spots below costa and with small crimson spots 

 at end of veins, the yellow indenting the dark area below vein 1. 

 Hind wing with the basal halt pink, the terminal half fuscous. 



Rah. Vn. CrUIANA, St. Laurent Maroni, type f § in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. '2(j milliin. 



*12b'9 a. Automolis subflammans. 

 Automolis subflammans, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 41, pi. 0. f. 11 (1909). 



J. Head and thorax scarlet with a rufous tinge, the shoulders 

 white, the dorsum of thorax with paired white fascia' ; palpi with 

 the 3rd joint black ; abdomen scarlet. Fore wing rufous; a white 

 patch at base of costa ; the inner area scarlet to beyond middle 

 with two subbasal white spots above vein 1 and four spots on 

 medial area above inner margin, the 1th larger; two rather elongate 

 antemedial spots on costa and one above end of cell with some 

 scarlet between and beyond them;' a very irregular hyaline 

 post medial patch from below costa to below vein 1 with small 

 rufous spots on it on the veins; the termen with four bar-shaped 

 white spots between veins 1 and 1. Hind wing pale scarlet with 

 a semihyaliue white patch below and beyond lower angle ol cell; 

 cilia white; the underside whitish below the cell and beyond it. 

 lower angle to termen. 



Huh. Colombia, Bogota; Brazil, Sta. Catherina, type f J i" 

 Coll. Liothschild. Exp. 58 milliin. 



*\2(V.)h. Automolis fulminans. (Plate LXV. fig. 21.) 

 Automolis fulminans. Roths. Nov. Zool. wiii. p. 266 (1916). 



2. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright scarlet; the tegulae with 

 small black spots defined by white, the patagia with white patches 

 ;l t base, the prothorax with pan- of white spots, the mesothorax 

 with pair id' small black spots defined ly white ; antennae rufous, 

 the shaft whitish ; palpi with Mack point at base of 2nd joint and 

 the 3rd joint black ; lugs with the femoro-tibial joint and the 

 base of tarsi black with a white point on them. Fore wine- bright 

 scarlet with a slighl greyish tinge except on basal area ami on 

 costal area to beyond middle; a white patch al base, slight white 



